Tag: marathon
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Back into Quorn life
Alright alright alright. January is over and so is the dedicated 5km speed block. I put the icing on the cake with a new Belair parkrun course record (15:46) on Saturday January 27th. As I alluded to in my last blog, I was in two minds about whether to give this a crack or not.…
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5000m on the track
Before we get into the race and reflection on the previous six weeks of training I’m going to tell you a little story about a climb called Fingernickin so excuse the waffle if you just want the good stuff and skip to here instead. Up at Moonarie, the almighty cathedral of climbing in SA in…
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Progression
The Port Vic holiday had to come to an end at some point. It was getting to the point I was almost ready to start talking to the neighbours. That’s an alarm bell for getting too comfortable in one’s environment and almost crossing the threshold to becoming a ‘local’. Or just needing more stimulation than…
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Curiosity killed the cat but not me
Greetings! This post come to you from Port Vic, a destination I alluded to last week. It’s been juuuust over a week between blogs though and I have a good reason for the day delay! Towards the end of last year my weekly writings became very habitually structured. Monday-Sunday, this is what I did, this…
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First one in the bag
Well here we are folks, back into the game of training only two weeks after Kosci. I thought it might take this amount of time but I was also anticipating it to take a little longer. A change of environment, a change in work/holiday mode and the classic ‘ok nah, I’m curious to see what…
Fraser Darcy 